Hi all, Compared to many of the people who contribute to this list, I'm an unsophisticated emacser. I know that an enormous amount of intelligent development has been put into GNU/Emacs over the years, and I don't want to slight that.
Having said that, my question is, has thought been put into multithreading parts of Emacs? Or exposing a rudimentary threading API to Emacs Lisp? This could easily devolve into a war about threading apis, but, just support some simple subset of pthreads would work. The background for my question: In Gnus, certain network operations often take a long time -- sometimes I don't want to check my email when it prompts me for a password, but I hit Return anyway, causing Emacs to visibly hang for a minute or two. Sometimes whatever server Gnus wants is down (or DNS is down, or whatever), and it 'hangs' until it's timed out. This downtime is in many cases at least long enough that I could profitably be doing work in other Emacs buffers. This downtime is probably experienced in other network modes in Emacs (like Tramp, I suspect, although I don't personally use it). So, why is Emacs single-threaded? What issues have been considered wrt having a multithread api in Emacs lisp? Thanks for Emacs as it is! I can't program without it. -Denis _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
